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Mrs. Emma Ellis was elected Rossville, Kansas, treasurer in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

Mr. O. Leroy Sedgwick established the Pottawatomi Land Office in St. Marys in 1870, and four years later began publishing a newspaper. In August, 1878, he moved his land office to Rossville, where pasture land sold for $1.75 an acre and good crop…

Dr. Henry B. Miller was born in Rossville, Kansas, in January 1, 1881. He received his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1908 from the University of Pennsylvania and after a year of interning in Philadelphia he returned to Rossville and worked with his…

Dr. Henry B. Miller with Shelley McClain on his lap at his doctor's office in Rossville, Kansas. See RCL0052 for more information about Dr. Henry B. Miller.

The corner stone of the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church was laid by Bishop Fink on June 18, 1899. The dedication of the completed church took place on October 29, 1899. Pictured left to right are Joe DeGraff, Charles Bixby, Mr. Roberts, Ben Mileham,…

Mr. LaVerne H. Spears was born on a farm near Wamego, Kansas, on September 20, 1906. He married Edna Vilven in 1927. They moved to Rossville, Kansas, in 1928. He was mayor from 1955-1965. He was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1964 and…

Edgar G. Griswold was born in Santa Rosa, California, on May 23, 1870. He moved to Rossville in 1902. He was a teacher and farmer as well as served as the Rossville, Kansas, mayor for six years. He died June 27, 1963, in Rossville.

The Rossville State Bank (the building on the right side of the picture) was established in 1893.The original officers were E.P. Merrian, President; I.B. Alter, Cashier; Dr. Henry H. Miller, Wesley Davis, and C.W. Higginbotham, Directors. The bank…

Mr. and Mrs. U.G. and Lillian Stewart are pictured inside the Rossville, Kansas, Post Office, where Mr. U.G. Stewart was postmaster from 1908-1911. The location of the Post Office at that time is unknown.

Velda O'Donnell worked as a Rossville, Kansas, operator in 1953. Public telephone service started in Rossville in 1900.